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[quote name='mcgraham' post='837254' date='May 14 2010, 03:04 PM']I'd love to come but I am sadly not around that weekend, so I wouldn't be able to bring my Wood&tronics beauties.[/quote] That's not good enough, we need a different date then. Wanna go on your fretless...

MotoGP from Italy... I can record that. Should be OK for it.

Sulphuric acid and man up a bit. But leaving it to harden is better if you want to be a big girl's blouse. If you burst it, the layer on top will be able to move against the layer underneath and it may come back nastier, or it may slough [1] off and leave you with a tender exposed area. [1] Why not Reading, or Swindon?

[quote name='Rettoglide1' post='837220' date='May 14 2010, 02:46 PM']If you've been playing for any amount of time or are any kind of decent musician you will know the Level 42's records are musically and technically superior to RHCH just by listening.[/quote] You are bass_ferret and I claim my reference to the Wiki.

The real defining difference between an acoustic DB and an EUB is that tallboy-sized box at the end of the sticky-out bit. What you need to do to get that sound is apply a fairly thick reverb with a short decay. Depending on what strings you've got on, you also might need to cut the treble too.

[quote name='Davy' post='765708' date='Mar 6 2010, 12:08 AM']Thanks for the technical explanation, that's what i was planning on doing. I wonder if any other basschat members have done something similar and did they find a big difference in volume from the superfly?[/quote] I built a 2x10 cab and wired it up to allow it to be used either as a 2x10 in parallel at 4 ohms or two 1x10s at 8 ohms (which gives 175WPC = 350W). If you use a jack socket with switching contacts, you can have it as a 4x10 when used on the speakon and 2 2x10s when the jack is plugged in as well. Note - if you do it that way, using it with the jack socket alone will only run two speakers.

Have you made sure the power lead is firmly rammed home? I encountered that a couple of times.

Get it from Bob Gollihur's site: [url="http://www.eclecticbass.com/wav4instruct.pdf"]WAV-4 instructions[/url]

I use the black Dunlops on guitar and (occasionally) bass. I used to use translucent nylon plectrums which were graded 1 to 4 (I went for the 3) but I have no idea what brand they were or whether they still exist. If anyone knows the sort I'm talking about (this dates back 20 or 30 years), I'd like to know...

[quote name='OutToPlayJazz' post='830880' date='May 7 2010, 06:02 PM']I'm all for the banning of "second" or "rhythm" guitardists. [/quote] Two of the bands I'm in (well, three, I suppose[1]) have two guitarists - in fact, the vocalist in the rock covers band also plays guitar on about 50% of the band. Somehow or other, we cope. [1] The originals band has spawned a covers band which is the originals band plus a couple of vocalists

He has now said that he's been told it's a copy so he's setting the start price at Squier levels. As for oiling and fret cleaning - he hasn't said he doesn't know about guitars, he's said he doesn't know about bass guitars. Subtle difference.

What is very odd is what you find if you go to his feedback and look at the stuff he's sold. Three cars, each with a different format of listing but demonstrating different but intelligible levels of English, a couple of Sky boxes ditto, and things like a clock and a trailer which demonstrate his rather haphazard approach to the language. I can only assume that the intelligible adverts were lifted from the original ebay listings that he bought the cars from.

I can't see a £399 in the bid history.

[quote name='SS73' post='826265' date='May 3 2010, 10:41 AM']Nice 4001, looks real clean etc, but the neck pup is in the wrong place for 75.[/quote] Is it? I just had a look at Rickenbacker's archive and it looks right to me: Seems the same to me.

Would anyone build a headless with the truss-rod adjustment at the body end?

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='824635' date='May 1 2010, 10:20 AM']What the hell happened to this thing? Why would someone not even go to the effort of dusting something before putting it on eBay?[/quote] That'll be because they've seen one too many Antiques Roadshows and confuse dust, crap and grime with patina.

I've paid to play at a festival that I was involved in organising. Many years ago, the musicians in Tamworth decided that an annual free rock festival would be a good idea. We managed to get some things for free but not everything. We also charged stallholders. In the end, the 20 or so bands involved paid something like a fiver a head to play. We kept that model running for about ten years. It was always very popular, always oversubscribed. However, this was a rather exceptional situation, and I wouldn't advocate pay to play in more usual circumstances. I have mixed feelings on playing for nothing - I did it last night and I'm sure I'll do it again, but I don't want to make a habit of it.

[quote name='eude' post='813297' date='Apr 21 2010, 01:06 AM']the Musicman Bongo was a collaboration with BMW as far as I recall[/quote] Not with Armitage Shanks? I'm interested in seeing what the final products look like. It can't be easy finding a shape which isn't similar to someone else's shape, given that the instrument also has to sit reasonable well-balanced on a strap and be sufficiently conventional as not to drive potential buyers away.

Peavey Grind, and probably the Schecter Stiletto Studio-5 (based on the feel of other Schecter necks).

Have a look at the Peavey Grind too. £349 for the 5-string from GAK.

Just bought a Yamaha G-50 off Owen. All went well, I'm very pleased. He posted it to me well packed.

Count me interested. And I have a rather more manageable cab than last time...

[url="http://www.partysounds.co.uk"]Partysounds[/url] is another website worth looking at for adverts. I think that three of my last four bands were through there. What amp you'll need depends on the band. I could happily use a Gallien Kruger 200MB or a Hartke 120W combo with my old covers band, doing pop-rock and cod reggae on the social club circuit, but I'm using a 4x10 and 500W amp for the rock bands I'm with now. I was able to transport the GK and a headless Westone on the back of a motorcycle. I suspect that you'll find that most rock musicians your age will be looking doing originals music, so your surmise about working with older people is probably spot on.